The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-28
Rumors Concerning Increased Activity on the
Part Of Irish Secret Societies Whose Aims
Are Hostile to the Government.
Eur0pe's Financial Barometer Gives No
Indication of a Coming Conflict.
Searching for the Dead Among the Debris
Caused by the Recent Earthquake-So-
cialists Attend Church at ST. Paul's.
A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
The Threatening State of Affairs in Irelan
Causes q Change In English Plans.

The Threatening State of Affairs in Ireland
Causes q Change In English Plans.
LONDON, Feb. 21-The session of the Cabinet
yesterday is known to have been exclusively
occupied in consideration OF the threatening
state of affairs in Ireland The air is heavy with
disquieting rumors of the renewed activity of
secret Irish societies whose aims are hostile to
the existing government. Dynamite conspira-
cies, involving destruction to English life and
property, are organizing, and upon proved re-
ports the detectives are busy, both in Ireland
and England, unearthing these dangerous plots.
There is an uneasy feeling among the public,
and meanwhile the authorities maintain strict
reticence, or vouchsafe only meaningless assur
apces If the existing government really TO-
mented the recent outrage scare, as alleged, it
acted admirably, ana in much shorter time than
they expected. The belief in the imminence Of
organized outrage by Irish American emissaries
is no longer confined to Cabinet circles, but has
spread through large part of the unofficial
Conservative Unionist world. 1t was, therefore,
decided at yesterdays meeting of the
Ministers that the decision of the late
Conservative conference postponing the coer-
cion bill until after the of the procedure
obliged to admit that the condition of Ireland is
! the most urgent of all the questions demanding
| consideration by the government A rearrange-
ment of the plans for the session was accord
ingly made. The new programme puts the es-
| Inmates first, Of course; then the cloture pro-
posal, and then the Irish crimes bill with its
coercive features.
| The question of prosecuting Arch bishop Croke
| and those conc erned in the dissemination of
his anti-tax manifesto has been decided in the
negative. The general sense of the Ministers
| has been against any attack upon the arch
| bishop. There has been only a small clique
| of Orange members willing that the govern
| ment should commit the blunder of rousing
| actual civil war in Ireland, as such course
would undoubtedly result in doing The mani
| festo will receive no notice from the govern
| ment, except that it will be cited in debate as
evidence of essential disloyalty among the Irish
and their trusted advisers
The committee of the Cabinet who have been
perfectine the crimes bill have approved its final
form. The government intend to introduce
it in the House next Thursday. The
Parnellites are determined to do all they
can to retard the measure. The Nationalists
| eApTeSS COuuUeuc0 III tuelT ability IC
| evade the operation Of the act Two
events of the past week have greatly strength
4 ened the Nationalists. The disagreement of the
| jury in the trial of Dillon and his fellows was
really victory considering the extraordinary
steps taken by the government to secure jury
| that would convict The source of strength to
the party has been the effect produced by the de-
| nunciations which the Catholic bishops have
poured out against jury packing. The nefari
Gus practice of organizing juries to do the bid
ding of the government has undoubtedly re-
| ceived its death blow at last Nowhere is it car
| ried to the same extent as in Ireland. The in
dignaton aroused by it Is SO widespread and
deep that it will hardly be possible for the
lawyers to again resort to their favorte practice
Of challenging all Catholic jurors. The Dublin
executive are charged with having set detectives
to work to ascertain the sentiments Of jurors be
fore their selection in the Dillon trial The Ma
tionalists, in turn, watched every movement o.
the detectives. The government on becoming
aware Of this fact, were obliged to instruct tn,
officers to abstain from the tracking OF probabl,
jurors. It is very likely due to this state of af
fairs that Dillon and his codefendants were no
convicted out of hand.